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Aloha Arborist Association is happy to announce our successful application for funding of a new project, “Tree Care Guidelines & BMPs for Manu-o-Kū Nesting Sites.” We will be working with the City and County of Honolulu Division of Urban Forestry, DLNR’s Division of Forestry and Wildlife, Hui Manu-o-Kū, US Fish and Wildlife Service, and others …

CAUTION: Damaged trees and branches extremely hazardous During hurricanes and other storm events, damaged trees and branches can become entangled in highly unstable positions. This can be true whether they are fallen or still standing. If you cut or try to move trees or branches, they can shift, fall, snap or “jump” toward you unexpectedly, …

From August 14th to 18th, 2018, Western Chapter International Society of Arboriculture partnered with organizations on the four major Hawaiian islands to bring 2017 ANSI updates to our region’s arboriculture professionals. Gordon Mann, WCISA past president and current board member of the International Society of …

New exotic ornate pit scale species found in Hawaii Island Asterococcus Prob. yunnanensis Mahalo to the Hawaii Dept of Agriculture Plant Pest Control Branch, and Janis Matsunaga for the information and photos in this post. For more details, see: “Asterococcus sp. prob. yunnanensis Borchsenius (Hemiptera: Cerococcidae): A New Exotic Scale Insect Pest in Hawaii and the …

Maui Green and Beautiful and Aloha Arborist Association: “Thanks!” To everyone who came to enjoy the day together, to our competitors for your inspiration and dedication to the profession, to our partners and volunteers for helping everyone have a great time, and especially to our sponsors CMI • TreeStuff • TrueWerk • WesSpur ArborMaster • …

MAHALO NUI LOA to STIHL and for sponsoring this workshop and helping to promote best practices in Hawaii and to Mark Chisholm, Dan Kraus, and Tree Works, Inc. for helping to bring excellent programs to the tree industry in Hawaii

CANKERS Excerpted in part from Hawai‘i Landscape Plant Pest Guide: Plant Diseases, by Dr. Scot Nelson, University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (UH-CTAHR) PD-105, January 2015, available at: https://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/oc/freepubs/pdf/PD-105.pdf Photos: Dr. Scot Nelson Description: Cankers are sunken areas of dead tissue or splits in the bark or epidermis of branches, stems, …

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